Cities of Fire and Smoke
Oliver Cussen: Enlightenment Environmentalism, 2 March 2023
Affluence and Freedom: An Environmental History of Political Ideas
by Pierre Charbonnier, translated by Andrew Brown.
Polity, 327 pp., £19.99, July 2021,978 1 5095 4372 4 Show More
by Pierre Charbonnier, translated by Andrew Brown.
Polity, 327 pp., £19.99, July 2021,
“... serve Promethean notions of dominance or Baconian instrumental reason. It could, as the historian Richard Grove argued in Green Imperialism (1995), just as easily prompt anxieties about the harmful effects of human activity. Grove argued that modern environmentalism emerged at the peripheries of 18th-century European empires, especially in the plantation ... ”